Booklist articles from April 2005

Booklist archives from April 2005

Dole, Bob. One Soldier's Story.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Dole, Bob. One Soldier's Story. Apr. 2005.304p. HarperCollins, $25.95 (0-06-076341-8). 940.54. Last year, the public was treated to the degrading spectacle of the military careers of two presidential candidates being kicked around as a...

Tosches, Nick. King of the Jews.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Tosches, Nick. King of the Jews. June 2005.336p. Ecco, $25.95 (0-06-621118-2). 364. Tosches' alleged biography of Jewish gangster Arnold Rothstein certainly takes an interesting approach. After opening with Rothstein's death in 1928,...

Alten, Steve. The Loch.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Alten, Steve. The Loch. May 2005.424p. Tsunami, $25.95 (0-9637709-0-2). Something hungry is in the loch... and it's not the gentle Nessie of Scottish lore! Marine biologist Zach Wallace, fresh from a near drowning in the Sargasso Sea...

Campbell, Bebe Moore. 72 Hour Hold.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Campbell, Bebe Moore. 72 Hour Hold. July 2005.319p. Knopf, $24.95 (1-4000-4074-4). Keri's beautiful 18-year-old daughter, Trina, has been accepted by Brown University, but she will be able to attend only if she can stabilize her recently...

Carr, Caleb. The Italian Secretary.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Carr, Caleb. The Italian Secretary. May 2005.250p. Carroll & Graf, $23.95 (0-7887-1548-0). When Conan Doyle had Sherlock Holmes take the plunge into Reichenbach Falls, little did he know that eventually he would be compelled to resurrect...

Deaver, Jeffery. The Twelfth Card.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Deaver, Jeffery. The Twelfth Card. June 2005.416p. Simon & Schuster, $25 (0-7432-6092-9). A new Lincoln Rhyme novel is cause for excitement among fans of twisty-turny thrillers. This time out, Rhyme, the quadriplegic forensic investigator,...

Kerr, Philip. Hitler's Peace.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Kerr, Philip. Hitler's Peace. May 2005.464p. Putnam/Marian Wood, $26.95 (0-399-15269-5). It's always a treat to see what fresh intrigue has aroused this versatile British author's interests. Here Kerr fleshes out one of history's great...

McCall Smith, Alexander. 44 Scotland Street.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... McCall Smith, Alexander. 44 Scotland Street. June 2005. 352p. Doubleday/Anchor, paper, $13.95 (1-4000-7944-6). Residents of an Edinburgh apartment building are put merrily under the microscope in this latest offering from Scotsman McCall...

Parker, Robert B. Appaloosa.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Parker, Robert B. Appaloosa. June 2005.320p. Putnam, $24.95 (0-399-15277-6). Randall Bragg owns the small frontier town of Appaloosa. He and his crew assault the women, steal from the merchants, and shoot anyone who gets in the way...

Sandford, John. Broken Prey.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... * Sandford, John. Broken Prey. May 2005.400p. Putnam, $26.95 (0-399-15272-5). The first victim is a young woman, probably flayed alive and raped. Lucas Davenport, head of Minnesota's Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, is assigned to the case...

Mountain Dreamer Oriah. What We Ache For: Creativity and the Unfolding of Your Soul.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Mountain Dreamer Oriah. What We Ache For: Creativity and the Unfolding of Your Soul. May 2005. 240p. HarperSanFrancisco, $21.95 (0-06-001196-3). 153.3. Mountain Dreamer begins this smoothly written guide to spiritual richness via...

Jordan, Mary and Sullivan, Kevin. The Prison Angel: Mother Antonia's Journey from Beverly Hills to a Life of Service in a Mexican Jail.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Jordan, Mary and Sullivan, Kevin. The Prison Angel: Mother Antonia's Journey from Beverly Hills to a Life of Service in a Mexican Jail. May 2005. 216p. index. Penguin/The Penguin Press, $24.95 (1-59420-056-4). 271. At 77, Mother Antonia...

Staub, Dick. Christian Wisdom of the Jedi Masters.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Staub, Dick. Christian Wisdom of the Jedi Masters. Apr. 2005. 336p. Jossey-Bass, $16.95 (0-7879-7894-9). 248.4. Using Star Wars as his dig, Staub excavates the Christian meaning in pop-cultural artifacts. Like Harry Potter, Frodo Baggins,...

Abrams, Floyd. Speaking Freely: Trials of the First Amendment.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Abrams, Floyd. Speaking Freely: Trials of the First Amendment. Apr. 2005. 336p. index. Viking, $25.95 (0-670-03375-8). 342.7308. Abrams, an ardent legal defender of First Amendment rights for more than 30 years, brings immediacy to this...

Buss, David M. The Murderer Next Door: Why the Mind is Designed to Kill.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Buss, David M. The Murderer Next Door: Why the Mind Is Designed to Kill. May 2005. 272p. index. Penguin, $24.95 (1-59420-043-2). 364.3. Psychology professor Buss first became interested in the roots of homicide when a close friend flew into...

Carswell, Sue. Faded Pictures from My Backyard.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Carswell, Sue. Faded Pictures from My Backyard. Apr. 2005. 320p. Ballantine, $24.95 (0-345-43856-6). 362.73. Symptoms of cross-genre abuse crop up even in nonfiction, and this depression memoir/ family history/local history is a perfect...

Cheek, Gene. The Color of Love: A Mother's Choice in the Jim Crow South.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Cheek, Gene. The Color of Love: A Mother's Choice in the Jim Crow South. May 2005. 272p. Lyons, $22.95 (1-59228-626-7). 305.896. After years of living with a drunken and abusive husband, Cheek's mother separated from her husband in 1961 in...

TR and RN.(The Manley Arts)(footnotes, endnotes, and biographies of Theodore Roosevelt)(Column)
April 1, 2005... I'm addicted to reading footnotes. It's a disease that I wish I could cure. Footnotes are very disruptive to the overall reading experience. There you are perusing the text of a fairly interesting book, and all of a sudden, you encounter a...

Choate, Pat. Hot Property: The Stealing of Ideas in an Age of Globalization.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Choate, Pat. Hot Property: The Stealing of Ideas in an Age of Globalization. Apr. 2005. 352p. index. Knopf, $26.95 (0-375-40212-8). 346.7304. Choate surveys the history of intellectual property laws in the U.S. as rooted in our...

Eban, Katherine. Dangerous Doses: How Counterfeiters Are Contaminating America's Drug Supply.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Eban, Katherine. Dangerous Doses: How Counterfeiters Are Contaminating America's Drug Supply. May 2005. 480p. index. Harcourt, $25 (0-15-101050-1). 36319. At a time when Americans are concerned about the safety of discount drugs from...

Hildebrand, John. A Northern Front: New and Selected Essays.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Hildebrand, John. A Northern Front: New and Selected Essays. May 2005. 206p. Borealis, $22.95 (0-87351-528-5). 304.2. While watching marine biologists at work on a research vessel off southeastern Alaska, Hildebrand asked the chief...

King, J. L. and Carreras, Courtney. Coming Up from the Down Low.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... King, J. L. and Carreras, Courtney Coming Up from the Down Low. May 2005. 208p. Crown, $21.95 (1-4000-9846-7). 305.38. King is author of the controversial best-seller On the Down Low [BKL My 15 04], which exposed the practice of apparently...

Kotkin, Joel. The City: A Global History.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Kotkin, Joel. The City: A Global History. Apr. 2005. 192p. Modern Library, $21.95 (0-679-60336-0). 307.76. Startlingly brief for such an ambitious title, Kotkin's evolutionary narrative is less an examination of individual urban centers...

Kunstler, James Howard. The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of the Oil Age, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-first Century.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Kunstler, James Howard. The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of the Oil Age, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-first Century. May 2005. 320p. Grove/Atlantic, $23 (0-87113-888-3). 303.4973. Kunstler...

Laird, Bob. The Case for Affirmative Action in University Admissions.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Laird, Bob. The Case for Affirmative Action in University Admissions. Apr. 2005. 304p. index. Bay Tree, $26.95 (0-9720021-4-6). 379.2. California has been the primary battleground over affirmative action, from the 1978 Bakke decision...

Mathewson, Worth. Band-Tailed Pigeon: Wilderness Bird at Risk.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Mathewson, Worth. Band-Tailed Pigeon: Wilderness Bird at Risk. May 2005. illus. 196p. index. Timber, $19.95 (0-88192-712-0). 333.95. The band-tailed pigeon might be mistaken for the common domestic pigeon except for its woodland or mountain...

Moses, Kate and Peri, Camille. Because I Said So: 33 Mothers Write about Children, Sex, Men, Aging, Faith, Race & Themselves.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Moses, Kate and Peri, Camille. Because I Said So: 33 Mothers Write about Children, Sex, Men, Aging, Faith, Race & Themselves. May 2005. 400p. HarperCollins, $24.95 (0-06-059878-6). 306.874. The writers of online magazine Salon's column...

Reavill, Gil. Smut: A Sex Industry Insider (and Concerned Father) Says Enough is Enough.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Reavill, Gil. Smut: A Sex Industry Insider (and Concerned Father) Says Enough Is Enough. Apr. 2005. 202p. index. Viking/ Sentinel, $23.95 (1-59523-012-2). 363.4. With stints at Screw, Penthouse, and Maxim on his resume, Reavill's claim to...

Wellman, Joy. Rattlesnake Romeo.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Wellman, Joy. Rattlesnake Romeo. Apr. 2005. 352p. Kensington/Pinnacle, paper, $6.50 (0-7860-1706-6). 364.1. Suburban Tampa divorced mother Vicki Robinson was active in a church singles group, had a steady boyfriend, and was otherwise...

Florida, Richard. The Flight of the Creative Class: The New Global Competition for Talent.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Florida, Richard. The Flight of the Creative Class: The New Global Competition for Talent. Apr. 2005. 336p. illus. index. HarperBusiness, $25.95 (0-06-075690-X). 331.12. Professor Florida makes an impassioned plea, using his first book,...

Johnson, Malcolm. On the Waterfront: The Pulitzer Prize--Winning Articles That Inspired the Classic Film and Transformed the New York Harbor.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... * Johnson, Malcolm. On the Waterfront: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Articles That Inspired the Classic Film and Transformed the New York Harbor. June 2005. 352p. illus. Penguin/Chamberlain, $19.95 (1-59609-013-8). 364.1. Johnson was a New...

Miller, Arthur I. Empire of the Stars: Obsession, Friendship, and Betrayal in the Quest for Black Holes.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... * Miller, Arthur I. Empire of the Stars: Obsession, Friendship, and Betrayal in the Quest for Black Holes. Apr. 2005. 320p. illus. index. Houghton, $26 (0-618-34151-X). 520. Black holes--those cosmic pits of gravity consuming everything...

Han, Peter. Nobodies to Somebodies: How 100 Great Careers Got Their Start.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Han, Peter. Nobodies to Somebodies: How 100 Great Careers Got Their Start. May 2005. 256p. index. Portfolio, $22.95 (1-59184-086-4). 658.4. Han, author and former entrepreneur, seeks the wisdom of 100 outstanding leaders to influence young...

McGrath, Rita Gunther and MacMillan, Ian C. MarketBusters: 40 Strategic Moves That Drive Exceptional Business Growth.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... McGrath, Rita Gunther and MacMillan, Ian C. MarketBusters: 40 Strategic Moves That Drive Exceptional Business Growth. Apr. 2005. 256p. index. Harvard Business School, $26.95 (1-59139-123-7). 658.4. McGrath and MacMillan, graduate business...

Deutscher, Guy. The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Deutscher, Guy. The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention. May 2005. 320p. index. Holt/Metropolitan, $26 (0-8050-7907-6). 401. The linguistic chain that connects the boasts of an ancient Sumerian...

Feynman, Richard P. Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: The Letters of Richard Feynman.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Feynman, Richard P. Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: The Letters of Richard Feynman. Ed. by Michelle Feynman. Apr. 2005. 320p. illus. index. Basic, $26 (0-7382-0636-9). 530.092. Since physicist Richard Feynman's death...

Mittelbach, Margaret and Crewdson, Michael. Carnivorous Nights: On the Trail of the Tasmanian Tiger.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Mittelbach, Margaret and Crewdson, Michael. Carnivorous Nights: On the Trail of the Tasmanian Tiger. Apr. 2005. 288p. illus. Villard, $24.95 (1-4000-6002-8). 508.946. The Tasmanian tiger, also known as the thylacine, is a probably extinct...

Carroll, Sean B. Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... * Carroll, Sean B. Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo. Apr. 2005.288p. illus. index. Norton, $25.95 (0-393-06016-0). 571.8. Evo Devo is short for evolutionary developmental biology, a new science that explores the...

Buchmann, Stephen and Repplier, Banning. Letters from the Hive: An Intimate History of Bees, Honey, and Humankind.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Buchmann, Stephen and Repplier, Banning. Letters from the Hive: An Intimate History of Bees, Honey, and Humankind. Apr. 2005. 274p. illus. Bantam, $24 (0-553-80375-1). 638. There has been a recent spate of books on bees and honey, perhaps...

Greenfield, Amy Butler. A Perfect Red: Empire, Espionage, and the Quest for the Color of Desire.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Greenfield, Amy Butler. A Perfect Red: Empire, Espionage, and the Quest for the Color of Desire. May 2005. 448p. illus. index. HarperCollins, $26.95 (0-06-052275-5). 667. Pirates! Kings! Beautiful ladies! Daring spies! Elements essential...

Kerr, Peter. Viva Mallorca! One Mallorcan Autumn.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Kerr, Peter. Viva Mallorca! One Mallorcan Autumn. May 2005. 312p. Lyons, paper, $14.95 (1-59228-618-6). 634. As ripe and juicy as the oranges he grows on his Mallorcan farm, Kerr's chronicle of his family's first year living off a foreign...

DeBlieu, Jan. Year of the Comets: A Journey from Sadness to the Stars.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... DeBlieu, Jan. Year of the Comets: A Journey from Sadness to the Stars. May 2005. 208p. Shoemaker & Hoard, $23 (1-59376-070-1). 616.85. DeBlieu experienced a family crisis in 1996, when her husband Jeff's mother lay dying. Moving between...

Machoian, Lisa. The Disappearing Girl: Learning the Language of Teenage Depression.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Machoian, Lisa. The Disappearing Girl: Learning the Language of Teenage Depression. Apr. 2005. 288p. Dutton, $24.95 (0-525-94866-X). 616.85. It's old news that adolescence brings with it a host of physical, cognitive, and emotional...

Whittaker, Paul. Hardy Bamboos: Taming the Dragon.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Whittaker, Paul. Hardy Bamboos: Taming the Dragon. Apr. 2005. 240p. illus. index. Timber, $39.95 (0-88192-685-X). 584. Many gardeners fear bamboo and its propensity to spread, so Whittaker's subtitle is an apt one for a manual that offers...

Conant, Jennet. 109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Conant, Jennet. 109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos. May 2005.432p. illus. index. Simon & Schuster, $26.95 (0-7432-5007-9). 623.4. Conant, whose grandfather, former Harvard president James B. Conant, was...

Oppie's gadget.(READ-alikes)(books about Robert Oppenheimer)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... The Manhattan Project lives on in the American imagination nearly 60 years after Robert Oppenheimer and his band of scientists exploded the first atomic bomb ("Oppie's gadget") on a patch of New Mexico desert near Los Alamos. That Oppenheimer...

Cameron, Julia. Letters to a Young Artist: Building a Life in Art.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Cameron, Julia. Letters to a Young Artist: Building a Life in Art. Apr. 2005. 176p. Pumam/Tarcher, $19.95 (1-58542-409-9). 702. Cameron approximates the one-on-one mentoring she provides via written correspondence in this epistolary guide,...

Chuck Jones: Conversations.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Chuck Jones: Conversations. Ed. by Maureen Furniss and Stormy Gunter. Apr. 2005. 224p. Univ. Press of Mississippi, $50 (1-57806-728-6); paper, $20 (1-57806-729-4). 791.43. Chuck Jones (1912-2002), responsible for a host of classic Warner...

The Comics Journal Special Edition, 2005: Seduction.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... The Comics Journal Special Edition, 2005-Seduction. Ed. By Gary Groth. 2005. 180p. illus. Fantagraphics, paper, $24.95 (1-56097-624-1). 741.5. To anyone whose comics awareness is limited to the mainstream U.S. publishers' current output,...

Curtis, Edward S. and Cardozo, Christopher. Edward S. Curtis: The Women.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Curtis, Edward S. and Cardozo, Christopher. Edward S. Curtis: The Women. May 2005. 128p. illus. Bulfinch, $35 (0-8212-2895-1). 779. Edward S. Curtis (1868-1952) was Seattle's favorite portrait photographer, but he left his plush life behind...

Dayton, Chip. Ramones.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Dayton, Chip. Ramones. 2005. 128p. illus. Omnibus, paper, $19.95 (1-903399-81-5). 782.4. The Ramones were the first punk band, the inspiration, on their first British tour, for the Clash and the Sex Pistols. This svelte collection...

Jordan, Matt Dukes. Weirdo Deluxe: The Wild World of Pop Surrealism & Lowbrow Art.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Jordan, Matt Dukes. Weirdo Deluxe: The Wild World of Pop Surrealism & Lowbrow Art. Apr. 2005. 190p. illus. Chronicle, paper, $24.95 (0-8118-4241-X). 709. The simultaneously retro and pomo lowbrow art movement is on display in cutting-edge...

Smith, Joel. Steinberg at the New Yorker.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Smith, Joel. Steinberg at the New Yorker. Apr. 2005. 240p. illus. Abrams, $50 (0-8109-5901-1). 741.5. Everybody knows that the only reason (OK, not the only reason) most people read the New Yorker is the cartoons. Fortunately, the most...

Adams, Henry. Eakins Revealed: The Secret Life of an American Artist.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... * Adams, Henry. Eakins Revealed: The Secret Life of an American Artist. Apr. 2005. 544p. illus. index. Oxford, $40 (0-19-515668-4). 759.13. Thomas Eakins (1844-1916) is revered as a great American painter, a technically gifted realist who...

Blackburn, Julia. With Billie.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... * Blackburn, Julia. With Billle. Apr. 2005. 368p. index. Pantheon, $25 (0-375-40610-7). 782.42165. Blackburn (Old Man Goya, 2002) picked up the loose ends of a previous effort by biographer Linda Kuehl to chronicle the life of Billie...

Harrison, Stephanie. Adaptations: From Short Story to Big Screen: 35 Great Stories That Have Inspired Great Films.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... * Harrison, Stephanie. Adaptations: From Short Story to Big Screen: 35 Great Stories That Have Inspired Great Films. May 2005.640p. illus. index. Three Rivers, paper, $15.95 (1-4000-5314-5). 791.42. Avid readers and movie buffs alike will...

Steinberg, Michael. Choral Masterworks: A Listener's Guide.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Steinberg, Michael. Choral Masterworks: A Listener's Guide. Apr. 2005. 368p. illus. Oxford, $30 (0-19-512644-0). 782.5. Steinberg, program annotator for the San Francisco, Boston, and New York Philharmonic orchestras, describes some 50...

Miller, Judith and Bace, Jill. Arts & Crafts.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Miller, Judith and Bace, Jill. Arts & Crafts May 2005. 240p. illus. DK, $30 (0-7566-0963-1). 747.2048. This prodigiously illustrated introduction to the Arts and Crafts movement, part of the DK Collector's Guide series, upholds the...

Husher, Helen. Conversations with a Prince: A Year of Riding at East Hill Farm.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Husher, Helen. Conversations with a Prince: A Year of Riding at East Hill Farm. May 2005. 192p. Lyons, $19.95 (1-59228-693-3). 7982 "I had come back to horses after seven years away," begins Husher's meditations on horses and riding. She is...

Molyneaux, Paul. The Doryman's Reflection: A Fisherman's Life.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Molyneaux, Paul. The Doryman's Reflection: A Fisherman's Life. Apr. 2005. 288p. Thunder's Mouth, $25 (1-56025-669-9). 799. Former deep-sea fisherman Molyneaux opens a window onto the harsh and fast-disappearing industry in which he worked...

Smith, Curt. Voices of Summer: Ranking the 101 Best Broadcasters in Baseball History.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Smith, Curt. Voices of Summer: Ranking the 101 Best Broadcasters in Baseball History. May 2005. 432p. index. Carroll & Graf, paper, $15.95 (0-7867-1446-8). 796.357. If anything arouses baseball fans more than the teams they follow, it is...

Black, Lewis. Nothing Sacred.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Black, Lewis. Nothing Sacred. Ed. by Hank Gallo. Apr. 2005. 224p. illus. Simon Spotlight Entertainment, $22.95 (0-689-87647-5). 814. As cable-TV addicts know, comedian and playwright Black's shtick is acerbically ranting about the American...

Daniel, John. Rogue River Journal: A Winter Alone.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Daniel, John. Rogue River Journal: A Winter Alone. May 2005. 352p. Shoemaker & Hoard, $26 (1-59376-051-5). 811. Poet and essayist Daniel spent one winter in an electricity-free cabin as writer-in-residence at the Dutch Henry Homestead on...

Jacobson, Mark. Teenage Hipster in the Modern World: From the Birth of Punk to the Land of Bush: Thirty Years of Apocalyptic Journalism.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Jacobson, Mark. Teenage Hipster in the Modern World: From the Birth of Punk to the Land of Bush: Thirty Years of Apocalyptic Journalism. May 2005. 432p. Grove/Black Cat, paper, $13 (0-8021-7008-0). 814. For the past 30 years, Jacobson has...

Parker, Douglas M. Ogden Nash: The Life and Work of America's Laureate of Light Verse.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Parker, Douglas M. Ogden Nash: The Life and Work of America's Laureate of Light Verse. Apr. 2005.300p. illus. index. Ivan R. Dee, $27.50 (1-56663-637-X). 811. Ivy League dropout Ogden Nash (1902-71) went into publishing when being literary...

Barker, Sebastian. Damnatio Memoriae.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... * Barker, Sebastian. Damnatio Memoriae. Apr. 2005. 128p. Enitharmon; dist. by Dufour, paper, $22.95 (1-900564-09-2). 821. Barker, one of the most compelling and musical formal poets in England, here joins the religious verse tradition of...

Reinhardt, Susan. Not Tonight, Honey, Wait 'til I'm a Size 6.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Reinhardt, Susan. Not Tonight, Honey, Wait 'til I'm a Size 6. May 2005. 288p. Kensington, paper, $12.95 (0-7582-1124-4). 818. Newspaper columnist Reinhardt has put together a collection of anecdotes and tales that ranges from side splitting...

Dobyns, Stephen. Mystery, So Long.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Dobyns, Stephen. Mystery, So Long. Apr. 2005. 100p. Penguin, paper, $16 (0-14-303462-6). 811. A prolific writer with more than 20 books of fiction and 12 poetry collections to his name, Dobyns has a controversial public persona, and people...

Crockett, Rigel. Fair Wind & Plenty of It: A Modern-Day Tall Ship Adventure.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Crockett, Rigel. Fair Wind & Plenty of It: A Modern-Day Tall Ship Adventure. Apr. 2005. 416p. illus. Rodale, $23.95 (1-59486-160-9). 910.4. When he was in his early twenties, the author signed on for a voyage around the globe with the goal...

Foster, Laura O. Portland Hill Walks: Twenty Explorations in Parks and Neighborhoods.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Foster, Laura O. Portland Hill Walks: Twenty Explorations in Parks and Neighborhoods. Apr. 2005. 300p. illus. index. Timber, paper, $17.95 (0-88192-692-2). 917.95. A city of great vitality and natural beauty, Portland, Oregon, offers...

Liebowitz, Daniel and Pearson, Charles. The Last Expedition: Stanley's Mad Journey through the Congo.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Liebowitz, Daniel and Pearson, Charles. The Last Expedition: Stanley's Mad Journey through the Congo. July 2005. 320p. illus. index. Norton, $25.95 (0-393-05903-0). 916.290. In 1887, Henry Stanley set out to rescue Mehemet Emin Pasha,...

Davis, William C. The Pirates Laffite: The Treacherous World of the Corsairs of the Gulf.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... * Davis, William C. The Pirates Laffite: The Treacherous World of the Corsairs of the Gulf. May 2005.752p. illus. index. Harcourt, $28 (0-15-100403-X). 976.3. Most Americans familiar with Pierre and Jean Laffite associate them with their...

Middleton, Nick. Extremes: Surviving the World's Harshest Environments.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Middleton, Nick. Extremes: Surviving the World's Harshest Environments. June 2005. 272p. St. Martin's/Thomas Dunne, $24.95 (0-312-34266-7). 910.4. Traveling to the Arctic, the desert, the rain forest, and the swamp, Oxford professor...

Childers, Mary. Welfare Brat.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Childers, Mary. Welfare Brat. May 2005. 272p. Bloomsbury, $23.95 (1-58234-586-4). 974.7. Childers describes her journey from a childhood growing up on welfare in the Bronx, one of seven children with four different fathers, to her life as...

DeWoskin, Rachel. Foreign Babes in Beijing: Behind the Scenes of a New China.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... DeWoskin, Rachel. Foreign Babes in Beijing: Behind the Scenes of a New China. May 2005. 304p. Norton, $24.95 (0-393-05902-2). 951. Don't let the tide fool you. Although one might think that DeWoskin's memoir of her life in China is merely a...

Fenby, Jonathan. The Sinking of the Lancastria: The Twentieth Century's Deadliest Naval Disaster and How Churchill Made It Disappear.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Fenby, Jonathan. The Sinking of the Lancastria: The Twentieth Century's Deadliest Naval Disaster and How Churchill Made It Disappear. June 2005. 320p. index. Carroll & Graf, $26 (0-7867-1532-4). 944. On June 17, 1940, the Lancastria, a...

Freedman, Samuel G. Who She Was: My Search for My Mother's Life.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Freedman, Samuel G. Who She Was: My Search for My Mother's Life. Apr. 2005. 352p. illus. Simon & Schuster, $24 (0-7432-2735-2). 974.7. Freedman's mother, Eleanor, died of cancer at age 50. Thirty years later, he has written a vivid story,...

Halkin, Hillel: A Strange Death: A Story Originating in Espionage, Betrayal, and Vengeance in a Village in Old Palestine.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Halkin, Hillel: A Strange Death: A Story Originating in Espionage, Betrayal, and Vengeance in a Village in Old Palestine. June 2005.400p. PublicAffairs, $24 (1-58648-271-8). 956.94. The community of Zichron Ya'akov is located in the...

Blogs over Baghdad.(Story behind the Story: Riverbend's Baghdad Burning)
April 1, 2005... Web logs, or blogs, have exploded in popularity, These frequently updated, highly hyperlinked, and rarely edited online journals excite many readers by offering unfiltered glimpses of other people's thoughts and lives. Some respected...

Riverbend. Baghdad Burning: Girl Blog from Iraq.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Riverbend. Baghdad Burning: Girl Blog from Iraq. May 2005. 320p. Feminist, paper, $14.95 (1-55861-489-3). 956.7044. Riverbend is the pseudonym of a young Iraqi blogger; this book archives the first year of her blog, Baghdad Burning. Once a...

Lind, Michael. What Lincoln Believed: The Values and Convictions of America's Greatest President.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Lind, Michael. What Lincoln Believed: The Values and Convictions of America's Greatest President. May 2005. 368p. index. Doubleday, $27.95 (0-385-50739-9). 973.7. Liberal political writer Lind contributes a provocative viewpoint to the...

Feuer, Alan. Over There: From the Bronx to Baghdad: Two Months in the Life of a Reluctant Reporter.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... * Feuer, Alan. Over There: From the Bronx to Baghdad: Two Months in the Life of a Reluctant Reporter. June 2005. 304p. Counterpoint, $24 (1-58243-327-5). 956.7044. In spring 2003, New York Times reporter Feuer was bustled off to the Middle...

Lowney, Chris. A Vanished World: Medieval Spain's Golden Age of Enlightenment.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Lowney, Chris. A Vanished World: Medieval Spain's Golden Age of Enlightenment. Apr. 2005. 336p. index. Free Press, $26 (0-7432-4359-5). 946.02. To organize Spanish history from the Muslim conquest of 711 to the completion in 1492 of the...

Pope, Hugh. Sons of the Conquerers: The Rise of the Turkic World.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Pope, Hugh. Sons of the Conquerers: The Rise of the Turkic World. May 2005. 400p. index. Overlook, $35 (1-58567-641-1). 909. With the end of the Soviet Union began independence for a half-dozen Turkic countries, where Istanbul-based...